Maine Voices: Disrupting the ‘slaughter, mourn, repeat’ cycle of America’s infinite gun loop

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Published
February 16, 2020

Maine Voices: Disrupting the ‘slaughter, mourn, repeat’ cycle of America’s infinite gun loop

Let's meet Mainer to Mainer and discuss how to move ahead on state firearm restrictions that would reduce the danger to our kids.
Published
January 27, 2020

Maine joins federal lawsuit concerning 3-D printed guns

The Maine Attorney General's Office has joined 19 other states in challenging the Trump administration's decision to allow the firearms to be regulated by the Department of Commerce rather than the State Department.
Published
January 21, 2020

Virginia Democrats reject expanding firearms rights a day after gun-rights rally

Among the defeated bills was one that would have allowed Virginians to carry concealed weapons without a permit and to bring firearms into places of worship.
Published
December 31, 2019

Judge orders Alex Jones to pay $100,000 in Sandy Hook case

Jones is being sued for defamation in Texas by the parents of a 6-year-old who was among those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
Published
December 21, 2019

New Zealanders hand in 50,000 guns after assault weapons ban

Owners also modify 2,700 firearms to make them legally compliant.
Published
December 6, 2019

Maine Voices: In today’s classrooms, educators’ focus turns to keeping students alive

Teachers are taking lessons, and they're on preparing for mass shootings, binding wounds and recognizing signs of abuse.
Published
December 3, 2019

Gun background checks on pace to break record in 2019

On Black Friday alone, the FBI ran 202,465 checks.
Published
October 24, 2019

Legislative leaders reject latest round of Maine gun-control measures

The Maine chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America faults top lawmakers for not allowing consideration of any of the 7 bills in the session that begins in January.
Published
October 14, 2019

Texas police officer charged with murder in shooting of woman in her home

The city is still reeling from an earlier fatal shooting involving a white officer and a black victim, and local leaders have called for a probe of the department after Atatiana Jefferson was shot through her window.
Published
October 12, 2019

Road rage leaves 2-year-old with gunshot wound in Baltimore

The boy was in 'somewhat stable condition' Saturday and was expected to survive, police say.